Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-04-09
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

The Florida strawberry crop, now being
marketed, is large.
Thirty.six teiegraphofiees were opened in
China during March.
The total redemption Of trade dollars So
far amounts to s3.S7s,73s.
English capitalists have paid $roo, 900 for
gold mine in White county. Ga.
The ice palace at St. Paul is falling in
from the effects Of spring weather.
The circus men are to test the constitution
ality Of the Interstate Commerce law.
A train Of twenty cars Of bottled beer has
left Milwaukee for the Pacife Coast.
Fire has caused great havoc in the sugar
cane fields Of Cuba and San Domingo.
A war is inaugurated at Philadelphia
against the gamblers and Sunday liquorsel-
| ling.
| Deep SHOW hinders maple.sugar. .makingin
Vermont, and the product it is said, will be
| short.
! The English War Office has decided to
use f,ooo carrier pigeons at the Easter man.
euvers.
Egyptian petroleum is adapted only for
lubricating and fuel purposes, and not for
lighting.
The Commission to select a site for the
San Francisco PostofIce will likely be ap.
pointed this week.
Tennyson's jubilee ode is the subject Of
general ridicule. It is regarded as bad i'm
itation of Walt Whitman.
A horse at Edinburgh, Scotland, catches
and kills the rats that venture into his feed.
ing trough to share his oats.
Egypt hasimpOrted experts and machinery
from the United States to bore for petroleum
along the banks Of the Red Sea.
About 4, 900 immigrants were started West
from Castle Garden yesterday, being the ac-
cumulation Of arrivals since Friday last.
The Secretary of the Navy has invited
sealed proposals from ship. builders Of the
United States for building five new vessels
A diamond of COED quality and unusual
size has been found at Ponca, Neb., it is re-
ported, by man who was sinking shaft
for gold.
Twenty young ladies of Lincoln, ILL.,, re-
Gently sat togather two hours without speak
ing word, and thereby won. $Ioo for the
missionary cause.
A steam tug Of 700 tons burden is Under
construction at Bangor, Maine. 1t is claim.
ed that she will be the largest boat Of her
kind in this country.
A bill was passed by the Pennsylvania
Senate Wednesday, providing that The Pun
ishment Ter murder in the first degree may
be death by the use Of electricity.
Fears are expressed in the South that the
fruit crop has been injured by recent frosts,'
and already experts are giving varied and
differing testimony in the matter.
An English High Church paper lately CON.
tains an advertisement Of coachman who de-
clared himself to be an ''advanced Catholic
and skillful in the managemet of horses"
The American Legation at Constantinople
has asked the Porte to send war ship to
Smyrna to protect the missionaries, whose
houses were, on a recent Sunday, stoned by
Greeks.
The Canadian fishermen are trying to buy
enough claim bait in Maine to supply them
the entire fishing season, so that retaliation.
if decided on, will not harm them in this
particular.
Great Britain has demanded 81, ,ooo, 900 Of
Hayti as settlement in full Of old demands.
Failing its immediate payment, she wants
Tortugas Island, which lies of the north
coast Of Hayti.
Every effort Is being made by the Porte to-
strengthen the fortresses in and around Tri-
will be ceded to Italy in return for her join.
ing the central European alliance.
Annie Ruckhurst, twenty-o Que years old,
and John Hop Sing, Chinese laundryman,
twenty eight years old we're, married in Jer-
sey City Wednesday by Justice of the Peace.
Annie is said to be San Francisco girl.
"Resd me for my cause. and be patient that ys
may read.
The Gratest study OF Mankind In MANI
The greatest study of mankind is man.
And who ere his wondsrous frame doth scan.
Ponder and devise to cure an ~,
whe her by devise, fruit or pill,
An equal benefactor IL he; and We haste,
The inventor of a catharsic Of delicious TASTE.